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- info - GNU's hypertext system
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- iinnffoo [ ----ooppttiioonn--nnaammee ooppttiioonn--vvaalluuee ] mmeennuu--iitteemm......
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- Copyright (C) 1989, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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- The GNU project has a hypertext system called _I_n_f_o which
- allows the same source file to be either printed as a
- paper manual, or viewed using iinnffoo.. It is possible to use
- the iinnffoo program from inside Emacs, or to use the stand-
- alone version described here. This manual page gives a
- brief summary of its capabilities.
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- OOPPTTIIOONNSS
- ----ddiirreeccttoorryy ddiirreeccttoorryy--ppaatthh
- Add ddiirreeccttoorryy--ppaatthh to the list of directory paths
- searched when iinnffoo needs to find a file. You may
- issue ----ddiirreeccttoorryy multiple times. Alternatively,
- you may specify a value for the environment vari-
- able IINNFFOOPPAATTHH;; if ----ddiirreeccttoorryy is not given, the
- value of IINNFFOOPPAATTHH is used. The value of IINNFFOOPPAATTHH
- is a colon separated list of directory names. If
- you do not supply either IINNFFOOPPAATTHH or ----ddiirreeccttoorryy--
- ppaatthh,, iinnffoo uses a default path.
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- --ff ffiilleennaammee
- Specify a particular iinnffoo file to visit. By
- default, iinnffoo visits the file ddiirr;; if you use this
- option, iinnffoo will start with ((FFIILLEENNAAMMEE))TToopp as the
- first file and node.
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- --nn nnooddeennaammee
- Specify a particular node to visit in the initial
- file that iinnffoo loads. This is especially useful in
- conjunction with ----ffiillee.. You may specify ----nnooddee
- multiple times.
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- --oo ffiillee
- Direct output to ffiillee instead of starting an inter-
- active iinnffoo session.
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- --hh Produce a relatively brief description of the
- available iinnffoo options.
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- ----vveerrssiioonn
- Print the version information of iinnffoo and exit.
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- menu items. The first argument is a menu item in
- the initial node visited, while the second argument
- is a menu item in the first argument's node. You
- can easily move to the node of your choice by spec-
- ifying the menu names which describe the path to
- that node. For example,
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- iinnffoo eemmaaccss bbuuffffeerrss
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- first selects the menu item eemmaaccss in the node
- ((ddiirr))TToopp,, and then selects the menu item bbuuffffeerrss in
- the node ((eemmaaccss))TToopp..
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- CCOOMMMMAANNDDSS
- When in iinnffoo the following commands are available:
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- hh Invoke the Info tutorial.
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- ?? Get a short summary of iinnffoo commands.
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- hh Select the iinnffoo node from the main directory; this
- is much more complete than just using ??..
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- CCttrrll--gg Abort whatever you are doing.
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- CCttrrll--ll Redraw the screen.
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- Selecting other nodes:
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- nn Move to the "next" node of this node.
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- pp Move to the "previous" node of this node.
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- uu Move to this node's "up" node.
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- mm Pick a menu item specified by name. Picking a menu
- item causes another node to be selected. You do not
- need to type a complete nodename; if you type a few
- letters and then a space or tab iinnffoo will will try
- to fill in the rest of the nodename. If you ask for
- further completion without typing any more charac-
- ters you'll be given a list of possibilities; you
- can also get the list with ??.. If you type a few
- characters and then hit return iinnffoo will try to do
- a completion, and if it is ambigous use the first
- possibility.
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- ff Follow a cross reference. You are asked for the
- name of the reference, using command completion as
- for mm..
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- ll Move to the last node you were at.
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- Moving within a node:
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- SSppaaccee Scroll forward a page.
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- DDEELL Scroll backward a page.
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- bb Go to the beginning of this node.
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- Advanced commands:
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- qq Quit iinnffoo..
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- 11 Pick first item in node's menu.
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- 22 ---- 55 Pick second ... fifth item in node's menu.
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- gg Move to node specified by name. You may include
- a filename as well, as ((FFIILLEENNAAMMEE))NNOODDEENNAAMMEE..
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- ss Search through this iinnffoo file for a specified
- string, and select the node in which the next
- occurrence is found.
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- MM--xx pprriinntt--nnooddee
- Pipe the contents of the current node through the
- command in the environment variable
- IINNFFOO__PPRRIINNTT__CCOOMMMMAANNDD.. If the variable does not
- exist, the node is simply piped to llpprr..
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- IINNFFOOPPAATTHHSS
- A colon-separated list of directories to search for
- iinnffoo files. Used if ----ddiirreeccttoorryy is not given.
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- IINNFFOO__PPRRIINNTT__CCOOMMMMAANNDD
- The command used for printing.
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- eemmaaccss(1)
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- AAUUTTHHOORR
- Brian Fox, Free Software Foundation
- bfox@ai.mit.edu
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- MMAANNUUAALL AAUUTTHHOORR
- Robert Lupton; updated by Robert J. Chassell.
- rhl@astro.princeton.edu; bob@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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